State v. Collins’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
62 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 65 later decisions — most recently April 2019 · most notably State v. Alexander (2005), 95 Wash. 2d 799 - State v. Wheeler (1981)
62 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Santobello v. New York · Johnson v. Railway Express Agency, Inc. · Greene v. Massey · United States v. Carter · Cooper v. United States
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 65 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"When viewed in light of the analogous law of contracts, it is clear that plea agreements normally arise in the form of unilateral contracts. The consideration given for the prosecutor's promise is not defendant's corresponding promise to plead guilty, but rather is defendant's actual performance by so pleading. Thus, the prosecutor agrees to perform if and when defendant performs but has no right to compel defendant's performance."”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““must be attended by safeguards to insure the defendant what is reasonably due in the circumstances. Those circumstances will vary, but a constant factor is that when a plea rests in any significant degree on a promise or agreement of the prosecutor, so that it can be said to be part of the inducement or consideration, such promise must be fulfilled.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[T]here is no absolute right to have a guilty plea accepted.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Hooker
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.